Quotes by : James Weldon Johnson

O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness....

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they....

Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous....

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater....

New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate....

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had never....